Tuesday, Nov. 26, is the 35th anniversary of a deadly fire that had a profound and lasting effect on the town of Greece.

Ten people, many of them Canadians here on a shopping trip, died of smoke inhalation in a fast-moving fire at the Holiday Inn Northwest on Ridge Road.

Law enforcement officials and others associated with the case hope to find some semblance of closure in the coming months to put an end to an arson investigation that has dragged on for decades.

On Sunday, read our in-depth story about the fire and the status of law enforcement's arson investigation, with an interactive time line of the fire and the subsequent investigation, and documents associated with the case.

The Greece Holiday Inn fire on West Ridge Road in Greece shortly before the fire peaked on Nov. 26, 1978. (Photo: Don Hemmer)

1). Maureen Anderson's room on the third floor of the west wing of the Greece Holiday Inn where 8 of the 10 people died. Anderson escaped. 2). The exit where five bodies were found. (Photo: file photo)

Mary Peterson, 63, of Toronto, flanked by friends (l-r) Olive Wyatt, Lillian Irwin and Hilda Traviss. All were staying at the Holiday Inn in Greece when it was destroyed by fire. A large number of the hotel's guests at the time were Canadian shoppers (Photo: UPI)

Huddled in blankets or in their winter coats, survivors of a tragic fire that killed ten people early Nov. 26 in a suburban (Greece) Holiday Inn, sit in the lobby of Rochester's downtown Holiday Inn where hotel officials had set up a temporary shelter for them. Many of the survivors chatted with a virtual army of local reporters, while others, such as those shown here, sat stoically by and refused to comment. (UPI photo, Phil Matt. 11/26/1978) (Photo: UPI)

A Greece police officer helps some of the survivors of the Holiday Inn fire find their belongings. This was in the Greece Town Hall, then located on West Ridge Road. Most survivors escaped wearing only their nightclothes. (Photo: file photo)

Greece Ridge Fire Chief Kenneth Volkmar, with hat, leads an inspection tour inside the Holiday Inn. Stairs were used by some guests in front second-story rooms as their path to safety. (Photo: file photo)